Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 3, sentence 78

Then, at the moment she was about to get into bed, he must give her a little push, so that she might fall into the water, and then dip her three times.

Who acts: princess, John · What happens: be, get, give, fall, dip · To what, where: moment, bed, little push, princess, water

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, John), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 give	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Then	punct
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 moment	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 moment	det
5	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 give	obl
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 about	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 about	cop
8	about	about	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 moment	acl:relcl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 get	mark
10	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 about	xcomp
11	into	into	ADP	_	12 bed	case
12	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 get	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 moment	punct
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 give	nsubj
15	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 give	aux
16	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
17	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 give	iobj
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 push	det
19	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 push	amod
20	push	push	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 give	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 fall	punct
22	so	so	ADV	_	26 fall	advmod
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 fall	mark
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 fall	nsubj
25	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 fall	aux
26	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 give	advcl
27	into	into	ADP	_	29 water	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 water	det
29	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 fall	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 dip	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 dip	cc
32	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	33 dip	advmod
33	dip	dip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 give	conj
34	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 dip	obj
35	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	36 times	nummod
36	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 dip	obl:unmarked
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	princess	the moment not said here				about property	tree rules
2	get	to-infinitive	princess not said here			bed			vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into bed=Destination
3	give	must	John	a little push	princess		then; moment		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient push=Theme
4	fall	might	princess					into the water result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into water=Result
5	dip	infinitive	John not said here	princess			then; time		vn meander-47.7-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location she=Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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